android - Converting PDF to image (with proper formatting)

Question

i have a pdf file(attached). My objective is to convert a pdf to an image using pdfbox AS IT IS,(same as using snipping tool in windows). The pdf has all kinds of shapes and text .

i am using the following code:

PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("Hello World.pdf");
PDPage firstPage = (PDPage) doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(67);
BufferedImage bufferedImage = firstPage.convertToImage(imageType,screenResolution);
ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png",new File("out.png"));

when i use the code, the image file gives totally wrong outputs(out.png attached)

how do i make pdfbox take something like a direct snapshot image?

also, i noticed that the image quality of the png is not so good, is there any way to increase the resolution of the generated image?

EDIT: here is the pdf(see page number 68) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ZiP71EQHz2NVZUcElvbFNreEU/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT 2: it seems that all the text isvanishing. i also tried using the PDFImageWriter class

test.writeImage(doc, "png", null, 68, 69, "final.png",TYPE_USHORT_GRAY,200 );

same result

Answer 1

Using PDFRenderer it is possible to convert PDF page into image formats.

Convert PDF page into image in java Using PDF Renderer. Jars Required PDFRenderer-0.9.0

package com.pdfrenderer.examples;

import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile;
import com.sun.pdfview.PDFPage;

public class PdfToImage {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String sourceDir = "C:/Documents/Chemistry.pdf";// PDF file must be placed in DataGet folder
            String destinationDir = "C:/Documents/Converted/";//Converted PDF page saved in this folder

        File sourceFile = new File(sourceDir);
        File destinationFile = new File(destinationDir);

        String fileName = sourceFile.getName().replace(".pdf", "_cover");

        if (sourceFile.exists()) {
            if (!destinationFile.exists()) {
                destinationFile.mkdir();
                System.out.println("Folder created in: "+ destinationFile.getCanonicalPath());
            }

            RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(sourceFile, "r");
            FileChannel channel = raf.getChannel();
            ByteBuffer buf = channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, channel.size());
            PDFFile pdf = new PDFFile(buf);
            int pageNumber = 62;// which PDF page to be convert
            PDFPage page = pdf.getPage(pageNumber);

            System.out.println("Total pages:"+ pdf.getNumPages());

            // create the image
            Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, (int) page.getBBox().getWidth(), (int) page.getBBox().getHeight());
            BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(rect.width, rect.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

            // width & height, // clip rect, // null for the ImageObserver, // fill background with white, // block until drawing is done
            Image image = page.getImage(rect.width, rect.height, rect, null, true, true );
            Graphics2D bufImageGraphics = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
            bufImageGraphics.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);

            File imageFile = new File( destinationDir + fileName +"_"+ pageNumber +".png" );// change file format here. Ex: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp

            ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png", imageFile);

            System.out.println(imageFile.getName() +" File created in: "+ destinationFile.getCanonicalPath());
        } else {
            System.err.println(sourceFile.getName() +" File not exists");
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
}

ConvertedImage: